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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sharpe do when Mrs. Parker refuses to leave the carriage?
(a) Tells her husband to push her out.
(b) Cuts the horses loose from the carriage.
(c) Pushes the carriage over with her in it.
(d) Pulls her out of it.

2. What does Sharpe advise George to do?
(a) Go to Lisbon.
(b) Go to the coast.
(c) Join with the Spanish army.
(d) Stay with Vivar.

3. What does Vivar tell Sharpe about how he deals with military regulations?
(a) He ignores them completely.
(b) He gives his men a list of ten commands to learn and follow.
(c) He adheres to the book.
(d) He reduces them to three simple rules.

4. What does Williams tell Sharpe is the background of many of the riflemen?
(a) They are mostly from the cities.
(b) They are thugs and criminals.
(c) They are good sturdy farmers.
(d) They have been drafted against their wishes.

5. How does Father Alzaga feel towards Sharpe?
(a) Curious.
(b) Hostile.
(c) Friendly.
(d) Indifferent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williams suggest to Sharpe?

2. What does Sharpe order Williams to do at the beginning of Chapter 2?

3. What does Vivar say the Spanish people need?

4. Where does Sharpe put a dozen riflemen when he spots French cavalry?

5. What does Vivar tell Sharpe the strongbox contains?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Murray tell Sharpe before Murray dies?

2. What does Sharpe tell the Parkers when they see French cavalry coming and what does he do with his riflemen? Who does he see within the French forces?

3. What happens when the French assault the farmhouse the first time and what does Sharpe tell Harper? What is Harper's response?

4. What does Vivar ask Sharpe to recount and what does Vivar explain to Sharpe? Where does he ask Sharpe to go?

5. What does Sharpe have his riflemen do when the French ambush them?

6. What does Major Dunnet tell Sharpe to do, how does he address him and how does he feel about Sharpe? What does Murray suspect about Dunnet's feelings towards Sharpe?

7. Who, of the French forces chasing Vivar, does Vivar watch the most and why?

8. What does Vivar tell Davila to do?

9. What happens as Sharpe is about to order his riflemen to flee the house and who joins him in the woods?

10. What does Williams tell Harper about Sharpe and what does Sharpe tell Williams to do? What is Williams suggestion to Sharpe?

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